Region North
NIVA Region North is co-located with our subsidiary, Akvaplan-niva, at the Fram Centre in Tromsø.
There are seven employees in the office who work locally, nationally and internationally.
The employees at NIVA Region North represent different sections at NIVA and cover a wide range of professional expertise on environmental challenges related to the High North and the Arctic. As a member of the Fram Centre, NIVA is involved in several of the Fram Centre's research programs and projects.
Examples of subject areas that our employees in Tromsø are involved in:
- Nature restoration: e.g., restoration of kelp forests from sea urchin grazing
- Land-sea interactions
- Management studies: Processes and effects of management
- Law of the sea
- Spatial planning, especially along the coast and at sea
- Environmental monitoring: ecological and chemical status
- Ecosystem-based management, especially of oceans, coasts and freshwater
- Environmental pollutants and pollution: long-range transported pollutants, development of analyses and sampling methods, new and emerging pollutants
- Plastic pollution: mapping and method development for impact assessment
- Microplastics: analyses, method development and monitoring
- Aquaculture and other marine-based industries: monitoring of environmental effects, circular solutions, technology development, etc.
- Sustainable blue growth in coastal and sea areas
- Climate effects
- Environmental technology
